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		Hadn't seen it in a zillion years and needed something to do while the glynch went up North to hang plates, so I rented the 2nd season from Netflix (1st season not available for some reason).  It's a lot slower than I remembered, but gotta confess, I really enjoyed revisiting it, and either I missed a few episodes or just have completely forgotten them.
	
	
	
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		Wow! I caught the edge of one of the episodes during the Queen's lunch break.   Was the Kung Fu supposed to be that bad?
	
	
	
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		That particular episode (The Salamander) was particularly bad.
	
	
	
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		I love the show but can't bring myself to buy the season one DVD. Apparently they not only released the syndicated version with a few minutes cut out of each episode (to allow for more commercials) but they cropped the frame to make it wide-screen.
The second and third season are available in the proper 4/3 screen size, but are only available in the 'complete' box set.
	
	
	
	
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		that's what made the series really challenging.  great writing, crappy kung fu.  it's usually the other way around.
	
	
	
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		Um? When did the great writing kick in?
	
	
	
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		it was a groundbreaking series.  watch it in context of the other shows that were out there.
	
	
	
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		I'm supposed to watch all the TV shows from that era so I can see how much superior the writing was on Kung Fu?
	
	
	
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		...but if the kung fu AND the writing sux, wtf did you netflix it for?
	
	
	
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		Talk to the Queen. While she was pining for you in your Tux, I mean me, she wanted to reexperience some old Kung Fu memories. As usual, I caught one of the low ebb moments.
	
	
	
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		used to be dm in a tux was maybe a third of the glynch.  now it's less than half.  somehow dm-in-tux/glynch-lite does not equal the caine minstrel show, but we're talking tq here, and she's crazy enough to live with the glynch, so there you have it.
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		So many words, so little meaning.
	
	
	
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		if i can't clutter up this forum with babble, what's the point?
	
	
	
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		And the battle starts!  Shouldn't you be doing some writing or Assistant Publishing?
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